"ViewRanger, the software that turns your Smart Phone into a GPS unit displaying Ordnance Survey mapping, is now available for the Nokia 5800 and other Symbian S60 touch screen mobile phones."
ViewRanger will not turn your smartphone into a GPS unit.....but the software will allow you to use a compatible phone with either an integrated GPS or an external bluetooth GPS to display OS maps on-screen. "Other Symbian S60 touch screen mobile phones" means Symbian S60 5th generation mobiles.
"The software also allows you to point at a landscape feature such as a hill and ViewRanger will identify and name that feature using its 3D Panorama Maps where available". - doesn't mean point the phone at it and the software will identify it. What this refers to is ViewRanger's panorama software that can use your GPS location to display a 360 degree, 3D, panorama of features than are, or would be, viewable from that position. With the panorama displayed you can then scroll until the features on screen match those in the direction you're looking. Physical features including lakes, mountains and settlements are marked on screen with their appropriate name tags, so if you don't know what a particular feature is you simply match up the panorama to the skyline view to find the place/feature's name.
HTH
Posted: 09/02/2009 at 20:29
